That is to say, the intelligence of the Christian Empire, like that of the Greece of the post-Macedonian and the Roman domination, looked back to pagan Athens as to an irrecoverable greatness.
The morning glory of this view from Montepulciano, though irrecoverableby words, abides in the memory, and draws one back by its unique attractiveness.
Men and women of whom the world was not worthy--at the hands of those old painters they have received the divine grace, the dovelike simplicity, whereof Italians in the fourteenth century possessed the irrecoverable secret.
His inspiration may have been an odd cerebral rumbling, a perfectly irrecoverable and wasted intuition; the exquisite quality it doubtless had to his own sense is now not to the purpose.
For, in such a Circumstance, it is apt to throw the Patient into an irrecoverable Weakness.
Secondly, The faithfulness of God calls for irrecoverable ruin to be poured out on those that shall live and die under this covenant.
That the damned, when in an irrecoverable estate, will seek for, or desire deliverance from the wrath that they are and shall be in for eternity.
So then, though God by these determinations doth not lay some under irrecoverable condemnation, yet by one of them he doth; as is further made out thus: 1.
On the other hand, if the hopes that were entertained are disappointed, then precious and irrecoverable time has not been lost.
But that is what must be done in the case of the little deaf child, if precious and irrecoverable years are not to be lost.
Men and women of whom the world was not worthy--at the hands of those old painters they have received the divine grace, the dove-like simplicity, whereof Italians in the fourteenth century possessed the irrecoverable secret.
I cannot forgive in anybody is sauntering, and doing nothing at all, with a thing so precious as time, and so irrecoverablewhen lost.
For that is an irrecoverable and incomparable loss.
They do not see the sorrow that has no words, nor do they hear the silent knell of irrecoverable though unuttered hopes, "the toil of heart, and knees, and hands.
A flimsy and indolent background is almost a necessary consequence, and probably also a false flesh-color, irrecoverable by any after-opposition.
But, before the line of irrecoverable separation be drawn between us, let us reason the matter together: Your conduct is an invitation to the enemy, yet not one in a thousand of you has heart enough to join him.
In the De Genealogiis[57] he says that "for six years he did nothing but waste irrecoverable time" with the merchant to whom his father had confided him.
Those six irrecoverable years had indeed almost passed away before even in Naples he was able to find, unlearned as he was, "rozza mente" as he calls himself, any opportunity of culture.
De Genealogiis, he says that for six years he did nothing but waste irrecoverable time.
No, Sir, neither irrecoverable nor hopeless; for God, who is rich in mercy to pardon, is also rich in mercy to renew and quicken you into newness of life.
Why, Sir, I am in a state of hopeless and irrecoverable misery.
In sum, nothing would come of all our talk but the assurance that the volume was equally irrecoverable with the sword, and indeed with my poor character--at least, in the eyes of my immediate neighbours.
Hence there appears every reason to apprehend that it will recede into irrecoverable insignificance, poverty, and disorder.
Else under the morbid languishing of grief, and of what the Romans called desiderium, (the yearning too obstinate after one irrecoverable face,) too probably I should have pined away into an early grave.
Irrecoverable simplicity--residing so in irrecoverable Style--has no sturdier representative.
And while this time is on, you should think exclusively of its unique characteristics of blessedness, which will be irrecoverable when you are in the harness again.
To me at present the vital achievement of the book is that it inflicts an irrecoverable death-wound upon Intellectualism.
He thought for a moment of dressing the corpse, but to do this would have involved the loss of precious and irrecoverable minutes.
He bequeathed no old andirrecoverable debts to a hospital.
I will find this cup of compunction as full as I have formerly filled the cups of worldly confections, that so I may escape the cup of malediction and irrecoverable destruction that depends upon that.
O my God, how slippery a way, to how irrecoverable a bottom, is murmuring; and how near thyself he comes, that murmurs at him who comes from thee!
Thou toldest me in the other voice that I was mortal and approaching to death; in this I may hear thee say that I am dead in an irremediable, in an irrecoverable state for bodily health.
